More Monday Morning Miscellanea
Oct. 13th, 2008 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatI'm not sure whether this will become an ongoing Monday feature, but probably not. I do like making posts like this on occasion, though, as I have a lot of things to say that are too short for regular entries (yeah, I know there's no minimum length, but I don't like to make really short entries unless they're important), and too long for Twitter. Anyway, I have five items today.
1. One thing I've heard people say about Bill Clinton is that he was calm during a crisis. (Yeah, maybe it was because he'd always get a blow job before addressing the nation, but hey, whatever works, right?) It seems like Obama, who always appears to be cool and composed, might be the same way. He also has charisma, an area in which John Kerry was seriously lacking. I think there's a good chance these traits will prove beneficial to him in the election. Unfortunately, there's still a lot of racism in the country to work against him.
2. Sometimes, when I hear people talking about how badly the stock market is doing, I kind of want the whole thing to fail. I mean, I don't really (after all, I probably wouldn't have been able to pay for college if it hadn't been for my family investing in mutual funds), but I do think the system needs SOME incentive to change. Isn't it a bit absurd that the basis of our economic system involves people on Wall Street gambling?
3. When I did my post about annoying commercials, there was another kind I'd meant to list, but forgot. Those are the ones that show Ashton Kutcher playing with his camera. Maybe I should feel sorry for the guy, though. He can't get any acting roles anymore, and the only way anyone will pay him any attention at parties is if he shows off his camera.
4. Speaking of commercials,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
colbyucb reminded me of how Subway's "hey, we're healthy" campaign is rather irritating. I'm not even sure they started down that road until Jared, and his weight loss plan involved a lot of walking and eating the veggie subs. No one is going to get into shape by having an Italian BMT every day, you know?
5.bethje and I went to PetSmart last week, and looked at the cats they had available for adoption. It really bothers me when one of the cages says something like, "My family moved, and left me behind." Why would anyone DO that? Poor kitties!
1. One thing I've heard people say about Bill Clinton is that he was calm during a crisis. (Yeah, maybe it was because he'd always get a blow job before addressing the nation, but hey, whatever works, right?) It seems like Obama, who always appears to be cool and composed, might be the same way. He also has charisma, an area in which John Kerry was seriously lacking. I think there's a good chance these traits will prove beneficial to him in the election. Unfortunately, there's still a lot of racism in the country to work against him.
2. Sometimes, when I hear people talking about how badly the stock market is doing, I kind of want the whole thing to fail. I mean, I don't really (after all, I probably wouldn't have been able to pay for college if it hadn't been for my family investing in mutual funds), but I do think the system needs SOME incentive to change. Isn't it a bit absurd that the basis of our economic system involves people on Wall Street gambling?
3. When I did my post about annoying commercials, there was another kind I'd meant to list, but forgot. Those are the ones that show Ashton Kutcher playing with his camera. Maybe I should feel sorry for the guy, though. He can't get any acting roles anymore, and the only way anyone will pay him any attention at parties is if he shows off his camera.
4. Speaking of commercials,
colbyucb reminded me of how Subway's "hey, we're healthy" campaign is rather irritating. I'm not even sure they started down that road until Jared, and his weight loss plan involved a lot of walking and eating the veggie subs. No one is going to get into shape by having an Italian BMT every day, you know?5.
bethje and I went to PetSmart last week, and looked at the cats they had available for adoption. It really bothers me when one of the cages says something like, "My family moved, and left me behind." Why would anyone DO that? Poor kitties!
